6 Basic Rules of a Good Blogger – Are You Following Them?

Professional bloggers know that to bring traffic to their site, they need to do more than just creating some blog posts.

A successful blogger must write content that strikes a chord with people and gets them to react.

Your website can be a source of great income, but you need to do more than simply create a large amounts of articles.

You must write content that provides your readers with valuable, useful and entertaining information.

In a few words, added value!

There are lots of great resources on the web to help you learn more about starting a blog and improving its traffic, but here are some tips you can use to keep readers on your website and bring in new visitors.

1. Invest in Content Quality

You must be able to create not just outstanding content, but something really useful for your audience.

If you can’t devote enough time to posting with a constant frequency, you should think about accepting contributions.

No, guest blogging is not dead, and this is what you should be aware of if you are considering to accept guest posts:

If it’s true that bloggers that create content daily they are more likely to keep their site fresh and bring in an active readership, focusing on building articles with real value will help you even more.

2. Avoid the Same Topics Over and Over Again

Don’t try to write just about the most popular topics like internet marketing, blogging, or common posts like the “TOP 3 Twitter Tools You Should Use”.

Write about a subject that you care passionately about.

If you find that writing for your blog with passion becomes a chore, you might notice that your readership start to decline as well.

This doesn’t mean you can’t include a few keywords that work in your content with popular content readers search for, but you need to find your niche.

Billions of people have access to the Internet, if you can carve out even a small percent of the space on the Internet you can achieve enough traffic to keep yourself in business.

Leave the popularity contests to those with less originality and focus on building your own home on the web.

Great Post Erik Sir.
All of these 6 points are essential for blogger.
Content quality and blog design matter a lot. BTW building relationship with other blog is also important.
Thanks for sharing this detailed post with us.
-Hamim

These are some valuable tips to turn yourself into a successful blogger. Building relationships is the key to getting more traffic. Even if you can produce quality content, if you don’t connect and network with bloggers, no one will be there to read your content.

SEO is another important factor for getting more traffic to your blog. The more you optimize the more your rankings go up.

I rather prefer to have a lot of great connections then the same amount of organic traffic.

First, because you can lose the visits from search engines right away in a matter of an algo update,
second, because having good relationships do not bring just traffic and comments, but also help you get more knowledge within your niche.

Great post! Blog design matters a lot. I think a lot of people think it is only the content, but this only works if you already have a great following. A great design will help turn casual readers into fans!

You are offering some great advice in this article! I have to tell you that if I had not connected with some amazing bloggers like yourself last summer and fall I would not be where I’m at today.

My business is growing and thriving and the opportunities are huge!!!!

Without my community SEMrush would have never reached out to me and now I’m developing an incredible relationship with them after two published articles and a webinar where in all instances my community was amazing there for me.

Just wanted to share the power of having influential friends to call upon when needed is a massive blessing!!!

Yes Erik.I agreed with all of you points.For any blog content is the king,the blogger should give more priority to the content.If the blog has the quality content updated frequently ,people tend to visit the blog often and it brings the increased traffic and success to the blog.

Hi Erik,
This was a good post ideal for anyone wanting to do a selfaccessment. I personally think if you don’t have quality content then don’t blog!
as you said, quality content is a must.
Keyword planning tool is also very important factor not only for SEO but also for knowing what your target audience is searching for. 🙂
Thaks and have a great week ahead. 🙂

Insightful post!
I think you also apply how to set a good title. I was caught by your title though. 🙂

Quality content is very important. I personally spent two days to write a post and publish it. And sometimes it still has a flaw here and there. Yes, it is because English is not my native language, so I had to work extra hard for it. lol

Besides joining the community, I also do blog commenting. It was fun doing it. Because when I read the post, I learned many things. It seems like every time I learn as I read your post. 🙂

First point needs big attention as now this is the time of putting value to create value so investment is must. Free options are good up to a limit but to compete in mainstream blogging it is must to for premium promotion as well.

You are right repeating the same topics with a little twisting sometimes creates boredom so a blogger should keep searching new and unique ideas to create something note-worthy.

I’ll second the point about networking and building relationships. I’ve seen first hand what that can do to the engagement on your blog.

When I first started, I really didn’t understand all of this networking stuff. I thought to myself, why do I need some help from another blogger, I can just do it myself. No wonder I wasn’t getting any engagement. Once I started my networking efforts, things really changed.

So I’m a firm believer in networking, and it’s the one basic rule I wish more bloggers would mention when they write a post about starting a blog.